Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles Last Transmission 1LP Vinyl 2020 NA5118LP

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The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles - The Last Transmission

An interplanetary space/love odyssey featuring Melvin Van Peebles (Brer Soul, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song). Following HeliocentricsOut There and 13 Degrees of Reality albums. Download card included.

Melvin Van Peebles, the filmmaker, musician, author behind the landmark movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the trilogy of Brer Soul albums he released in the 70s has teamed with the UK ensemble Heliocentrics to create an interplanetary space/love odyssey told in twelve chapters. The Last Transmission comes nearly ten years after Van Peebles appearance as the third member of Quasimoto on Stones Throw Records 2005 release The Further Adventure of Lord Quas. For the Heliocentrics, The Last Transmission represents their third Now-Again album, following Out There in 2007 and 13 Degrees of Reality in 2013.
Van Peebles makes ideal foil for the Heliocentrics: he did graduate work in astronomy in Holland in the 1950s and maintains an avid interest in cosmology. The Heliocentrics, as their convey names, draw inspiration from both the philosophic leanings of the likes of Stephen Hawkings and interstellar mysteries, like those surrounding the Malian Dogon tribes knowledge of the Sirius B star hundreds of years before it was discovered. Their music is as indebted to Sun Ras interstellar jazz as it is inspired by psychedelias spiritual expanse.

The Last Transmission, presented as a vocal album and an expanded instrumental selection on a bonus disc, can be taken as both the bands interpretation of Van Peebles poem and a musical voyage inspired by Van Peebles vivid imagery. The band considers it their defining work, the result of more than a decade of playing and recording together. Theyve found a voice as a band, one that meshes with Van Peebles, as he weaves an intergalactic Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
In between producer/drummer Malcolm Catto's thunderous syncopation and producer/bassist Jake Ferguson's bellowing bass lines, amidst the analog electronics and atmospheric interference naturally accorded by their organic analogue process, Van Peeble's voice floats in and out, spectral in its tone, complete in its conviction in the unfathomable sense that lifes eruption in the cosmic expanse made, and in loves ability to transform and transcend death.

A1. CHAPTER 01: Prologue
A2. CHAPTER 02: Big Bang Reincarnation
A3. CHAPTER 03: Searching For Signs Of Life
A4. CHAPTER 04: BlueMist
A5. CHAPTER 05: The Cavern
A6. CHAPTER 06: Transformation (Pt. 1)
B1 CHAPTER 07: Transformation (Pt. 2)
B2. CHAPTER 08: Telepathic Routines
B3. CHAPTER 09: The Dance
B4. CHAPTER 10: Trust The Cosmos (Believe In The Universe)
B5. CHAPTER 11: Infinite List (Toss The Dice)
B6. CHAPTER 12: Epilogue

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